In the quiet shadow of New Year's Day, it seems useful to offer some thematic reflections on what I'm seeking to accomplish with this blog. For example, at the end of my first year in blogging in 2011, I tried to describe my ...

According to this popular cartoon, getting rid of fossil fuels is a free lunch.The wise will roll their eyes at this wishful thinking. But no one exposes its sheer absurdity better than Alex Epstein in The Moral Case for Fossil...

My recent fun project: I wrote Sudoku Insight, an Android app for those of us who look forward to the Sudokus with the most stars. (Even if you aren't that person, give it a try—its "review" page shows you how to solve any Sudoku.)